Cordillera People

• The indigenous peoples of the Cordillera in northern Luzon, Philippines, often referred to by the exonym Igorot people, or more recently, as the Cordilleran peoples, are an ethnic group composed of nine main ethnolinguistic groups whose domains are in the Cordillera Mountain Range.
• Cordillera Culture * Consists of autonomous villages called ili.​
• * Elders sitting as a Council act as leaders of these villages.​

  Cordillera Culture
• Bontoc people -They formerly practiced head-hunting and had distinctive body tattoos.
• Bontoc people 


  Music is usually played during ceremonies. Songs and chants are accompanied by nose flutes (kalaleng), gongs (gangsa), bamboo mouth organ (affiliao), and Jew’s harp (ab-a-fiw). ​
• Bontoc people Songs and chants are 


  nose flutes(kalaleng),gongs(gangsa), bamboo mouth organ(affiliao),&Jew’s harp(ab-a-fiw) ​
• Bontoc people -Wealthy families make use of jewelry, commonly made of gold, glass beads, agate beads (appong), or shells
• The Bontoc believe in a unique pantheon of deities, of which the supreme god is the cultural hero, Lumawig, son of Kabunian.​
• Mangmang, a ritual counterpart of the Benguet cañao, is used to appeal to the anito for a sick person (mangaswak), accompanied by a feast of chicken and pig meats. ​
• the main livelihoods are the

  traditional hunting and fishing, as well as planting of crops( dumagat)
• Where located is the indigenous peoples of the Cordillera

  northern Luzon, Philippines
• The indigenous peoples of the Cordillera often referred to by the

  exonym Igorot people
• Cordilleran peoples, are an ethnic group composed of nine main ethnolinguistic groups whose domains are in the Cordillera Mountain Range.
• Cordillera people’s include

  Bontok • Ibaloy • Ifugao, Isnag, Itneg(Tinguian), I’wak ,Kalanguya, Kalinga, Kankanaey
• Cordillera Culture * Consists of autonomous villages called

  ili
• Bontoc people -Found in the central and eastern portions of Mountain Province.​
• Where we can found the Bontoc people

  central and eastern portions of Mountain Province.​
• Ibaloi -derived from i-, a prefix signifying “pertaining to” and “baloy” or house, together then meaning “people who live in houses”
• Ibaloi society is composed of the rich (baknang) and three poor classes, the cowhands (pastol), farmhands (silbi), and non-Ibaloi slaves (bagaen).
• They celebrate a native feast called Cañao tradition, a Thanksgiving


  Ibaloi
• The Ibaloi traditionally practised mummification.​
• The culture is rife with anitos (nature spirits and ancestral spirits) and rituals.
• Nature spirits of ibaloi

  amdag, ampasit, tinmongao, pinad-eng, butat-tew, banig, penten
• amdag -wind-borne with nets to ensnare souls;
• ampasit -cave-dwellers who mislead night travelers;
• tinmongao -cave-dwellers that cause illness or injury to intruders,
• pinad-eng, who rule the wild-pigs and fowl of the forests, offered sacrifices by the hunters
• Some are rituals specifically related to illness in ibaloi

  Ampasit, Dosad, Sikop or sigop, Sibisib, Basal-lang, Tomo
• Ampasit, for sore eyes and sore feet, with a sacrificial chicken
• Sikop or sigop, a ritual for curing coughs, sans sacrificial animal or tafey, utilizing instead salt and ginger that is rubbed on the patient’s neck while praying.
• Ifugao culture values kinship, family ties, religious and cultural beliefs.​
• Ifugao courtship takes place in the girls’ houses (AGAMANG).​
• Ifugao culture revolves around rice, which is considered a prestige crop.
• Maknongan - ifugao God
• There are many gods and deities in Ifugao:

  Matungulan , Manahaot, Bulul, Bibiyo
• The healing rituals are chosen according to who is believed to be causing the illness.

  Ayag & Ketama
• • Ketama – a divination ritual performed for illnesses caused by ancestral spirits, using a deity-possessed medium, through which the spirit expresses his grievances and demands.
• Ayag – the ritual for illnesses caused by vengeful evil spirits.
• Their traditional tattoo is known as fatek


  Bontoc
• Men wear g-strings while women wear tapis. Bontoc